Carlo Tullio Altan (30 March 1916 – 15 February 2005) was an Italian anthropologist, sociologist and philosopher. He was particularly known for his studies on the Italian national character, and was considered one of the pioneers of Italian cultural anthropology.
Altan was born at San Vito al Tagliamento, in Friuli. His son Francesco Tullio Altan is a popular comic books creator and satirist.
Selected bibliography
- Lo spirito religioso del mondo primitivo (1960)
- Antropologia funzionale (1968)
- Valori, classi sociali e scelte politiche (with Alberto Marradi 1976)
- Manuale di antropologia culturale: storia e metodo (1979)
- Modi di produzione e lotta di classe in Italia (with Roberto Cartocci, 1979)
- Antropologia, storia e problemi (1983)
- La nostra Italia (1986)
- Populismo e trasformismo (1989)
- Soggetto, simbolo e valore: Per un'ermeneutica antropologica (1992)
- Ethnos e Civiltà: Identità etniche e valori democratici (1995)
- La coscienza civile degli italiani: Valori e disvalori nella storia nazionale (1997)
- Religioni, simboli, società: Sul fondamento umano dell'esperienza religiosa (with Marcello Massenzio, 1998)
- Le grandi religioni a confronto: L'età della globalizzazione (2002)
References
- Cavalli, Alessandro, Reflections on Political Culture and the "Italian National Character", Daedalus, 22 June 2001 (accessed via subscription 26 April 2010
- Angioni, Giulio, Un antropologo anti-italiano
- Robinson, Elisabetta, Carlo Tullio Altan, pioniere dell'antropologia culturale Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Controluce, Anno XIV, No. 3, March 2005 (in Italian, accessed 26 April 2010)
- Galimberti, Umberto, Il filosofo pioniere dell´antropologia Archived July 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, La Repubblica, 16 February 2005, reprinted on Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore (in Italian, accessed 26 April 2010)
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